The fellowship has been described by many of our fellows as the most defining experience of their educational journey. Every fellow gets to make his/her own favourite moments in the program where you can have sneak peek in the video below:

Our Team

Benje Williams (Cofounder, CEO) has supported entrepreneurs through various roles at Acumen Fund in Pakistan, Kenya and India. He has launched an education IT center in the Nairobi slums, and has worked as a management consultant at PwC in New York, at Dalberg in South Africa and at TechnoServe in Kenya. He holds a MBA from Stanford University and a BS from UC Berkeley.

Ali Siddiq (Operations Director) has 10 years experience in strategic planning, program management, marketing, operations, and customer engagement. He has worked at The MathWorks, American Airlines, Amazon and has been working in the education sector in Pakistan for the last 5 years. He has served at Punjab Education Sector Program, Salamat School System and as CEO of Institute of Professional Learning.He holds a BS from the UET, Lahore, an MS from the Ohio State University, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Sarah Farooq (Program Manager) has worked at Pakistan Microfinance Network and UN Women, UN Global Compact in New York and at a startup (Sanergy) in Kenya. Through these experiences, she has realized the incredible potential of youth for a better future and the power of investing in that potential. She completed her Masters from Fordham University on a Fulbright scholarship and her BSc from Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Laura has spent 7 years in project management, consulting, logistics and the service industry, primarily at a premiere airline in Latin-America. She joined the Amal team in Lahore as a member of the Global Fellowship program from Acumen. She is from Colombia and completed her BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and her masters in Strategic Project Management from 3 different universities in Europe.

We believe in building a team that believes in building a brighter Pakistan. A team that believes that an educated and employed youth is the critical foundation to achieving that future. A team that agonizes over how incomplete Pakistan's education system is but finds ways the system can be made better.

If you think you could be a part of this team, click here to learn more.